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Which political party is more corrupt? Republicans or Democrats?

Americans for Limited Government mails a letter to Democrat leaders demanding that Democrat Congressman Charlie Rangel step down as leader of the House Ways and Means Committee. (H/T Granite Grok via ECM)

The letter lists the following accusations:

1) failure to report over $1 million in outside income and $3 million in business transactions as required by the House,

2) failure to disclose at least $650,000 in assets he had previously failed to list on his House financial disclosure forms,

3) failure to disclose to the IRS or on his financial disclosure forms $75,000 in rental income for a beach villa in the Dominican Republic,

4) violation of state laws by claiming three primary residences and broke municipal laws by maintaining four rent-controlled apartments,

5) violation of House rules by using congressional letterhead to solicit donations for an education center bearing his name at City College of New York, and

6) delinquency in paying his property taxes on two New Jersey parcels and failure to report the sale of a $1.3 million brownstone.

And don’t forget another Democrat who had a lot of money unaccounted for. He got convicted 11 times for corruption.